{"id":1415095,"date":"2014-02-21T06:12:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-21T06:12:07","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2024-12-24T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T13:03:24","slug":"acrotrema-arnottianum","status":"publish","type":"ht_kb","link":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/efi\/acrotrema-arnottianum\/","title":{"rendered":"Acrotrema arnottianum"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Acrotrema<\/i> arnottianum<\/i> Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 1: 9 1840<\/i>. ;<\/div>\n
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Common name:<\/b> Arnott’s Acrotrema<\/div>\n
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Herbs; stem very short, densely hispid. Leaves radical, rosetted, to 35 x 15 cm, obovate obtuse, distantly toothed, very hispid, nerves many, regular, parallel; petiole 3-8 cm long, stipules wing-like, adnate to petiole. Flowers 12 mm across, in axillary raceme; pedicel 5 cm long, hispid; sepals 5, 6 x 3 mm, obovate, obtuse, hairy outside; petals 5, 8 x 5 mm, obovate, glabrous, yellow; stamens many, filaments as long as anthers; anthers obovate; carpels 3, jointed along the inner edges; ovules many on parietal placentation; styles 3, recurved. Fruit of 3 follicles, 5 x 5 mm, coherent along the innersides; seeds many, triangular.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Flowering and fruiting: Throughout the year<\/span><\/div>\n
Moist places under bushes along edges of ditches in moist deciduous and evergreen forests<\/span><\/div>\n
Southern Western Ghats (Endemic)<\/span><\/div>\n
(From India Biodiversity Portal<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n
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Attributions- Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi<\/span><\/a>)
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Acrotrema arnottianum Wight- Dilleniaceae- ESSK-FEB 02<\/a> : 5 posts by 5 authors. Attachments(1).<\/div>\n
Acrotrema arnottianum<\/i> Wight is an endemic species of Kerala<\/span>, belongs to the family Dilleniaceae<\/i>, one of the three species reported from India.
\nThis is <\/span>usually seen at low land evergreen forests, particularly along the shady places in southern Kerala.<\/span> Captured <\/span>from Thiruvananthapuram district in Kerala<\/span><\/div>\n
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Nice picture of the interesting plant!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Is this an acaulescent herb, …?<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nice find. Is this the herb??<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\nRequesting a herb ID_290422-4<\/a>: 2 high res. images.<\/p>\n

These broad leaved, herbs<\/span> are extremely hairy and are found all along the rocks adjoining the streams.<\/span> The flower buds appear to be red and hairy.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n
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\nAll the pic from 1-4 are taken <\/span>around Maruthamala, TVM, Kerala.<\/span><\/div>\n
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Neurocalyx calycinus<\/em>?<\/p>\n

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Acrotrema arnottianum<\/em> Wight<\/p>\n

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\nRequesting a herb id_291022_2<\/a>: 1 high res. image.
\n<\/span>This plant has hirsute leaves that are red when young, green when old. Also, the flowers are yellow with 5 petals.\u00a0<\/span>
\nNear Agasthymalai environs. IISER TVM. <\/span><\/p>\n

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Pl. check
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I think it is\u00a0Acrotrema agastyamalayanum<\/strong>\u00a0E.S.S.Kumar, Dan & G.M.Nair<\/span><\/a>\u00a0as per details at\u00a0A new species of Acrotrema (Dilleniaceae) from India<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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Yes<\/span><\/p>\n

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This is Acrotrema arnottianum<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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I have seen this in Tamil Nadu. The species is endemic to Tamil Nadu & Kerala.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Plant List Ver.1.1<\/a> \u00a0Tropicos<\/a>\u00a0 Flowers of India<\/a>\u00a0 India Biodiversity Portal<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Acrotrema arnottianum Wight, Ill. Ind. Bot. 1: 9 1840. ; . Common name: Arnott’s Acrotrema . Herbs; stem very short, densely hispid. Leaves radical, rosetted, to 35 x 15 cm, obovate obtuse, distantly toothed, very hispid, nerves many, regular, parallel; petiole 3-8 cm long, stipules wing-like, adnate to petiole. Flowers…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"ht-kb-category":[9083],"ht-kb-tag":[],"class_list":["post-1415095","ht_kb","type-ht_kb","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","ht_kb_category-acrotrema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1415095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ht_kb"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1415095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb\/1415095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1415095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-category?post=1415095"},{"taxonomy":"ht_kb_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/efloraofindia.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ht-kb-tag?post=1415095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}